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A 17-year-old girl hit by a pickup truck Monday morning in Waynesboro remained in serious condition three days later at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Waynesboro Police Chief James Sourbier said. Sourbier said the teenager, whose identity has not been released, was listed in serious condition Thursday morning. The girl was hit at the intersection of Fairview Avenue and West Main Street at about 7:15 a.m. Monday. Sourbier previously said she was hit by a 2002 Chevrolet pickup truck driven west on West Main Street by S. Allen Stine of Waynesboro.

Two people were arrested after about 10 gallons of gas were stolen Friday from lawn-mowing tractors at Jim's Small Engine Repair at 14623 Maugansville Road, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office. The owner of the business walked around his property and noticed gas-siphoning equipment and four gas cans near some tractors, police said. Deputies responded to the business and observed a Ford Ranger pickup truck leaving the area, police said. Yellow plastic tubing, the same type found at the business, was visible in the truck, police said.

A pickup truck and a garage that appears to have been converted into a residence on Paden Avenue were destroyed by fire Sunday night, but it was unclear if the blaze was connected to a string of recent suspicious fires in the county, fire officials said. The fire also burned a large amount of brush around the building, and firefighters were concerned because there is another house behind the burned structure, said Dale Fishack of the Smithsburg Community Volunteer Fire Co. Fishack said it took 20 to 30 minutes to get the 8:32 p.m. fire under control.

A Boonsboro man who pleaded guilty to causing the death of another man in an alcohol-related traffic accident last year was released from prison Monday after serving fewer than two weeks of a four-year sentence. Bryan May, 45, of 103 Tiger Way, appeared before Judge Daniel P. Dwyer on Monday in Washington County Circuit Court for a sentence-modification hearing. The terms of May's release were agreed upon during a hearing in Circuit Court on March 19, when May pleaded guilty to one count each of criminal negligent manslaughter vehicle/vessel and driving/attempting to drive a vehicle while under the influence.

A 52-year-old Smithsburg man was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead at the scene of a vehicle crash early Tuesday. When Washington Township, Pa., police responded to 10952 Buchanan Trail East shortly after 1:45 a.m., they found a 2004 Chevrolet Colorado with its engine on and its tires spinning, according to Sgt. Vernon Ashway. A deputy coroner pronounced the driver dead, Ashway said. Police were withholding the man's name pending notification to his family. Ashway said the pickup truck was westbound on Pa. 16 when it veered right and departed the right side of the road near AC&T.

A man was in custody in Eastern Regional Jail early Tuesday after police pursuing a stolen pickup truck from Virginia into West Virginia brought the vehicle to a stop in Martinsburg, the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. Matthew Michael Cameron, no address given, was charged with fleeing while driving under the influence, receiving/transferring stolen property, bringing stolen property into the state and being a fugitive from justice, the release said. The West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority website gave Cameron's age as 22. Shortly after midnight, Berkeley County deputies were called to assist the Frederick County (Va.)

Police said a 22-year-old man who led them on a high-speed pursuit in Virginia and West Virginia late Monday night and early Tuesday morning later admitted that he was fleeing in a pickup truck that he stole from a hospital in Maryland. Matthew Michael Cameron, of no fixed address, was arraigned Tuesday by Berkeley County Magistrate Harry L. Snow on single felony counts of fleeing while driving under the influence, receiving/transferring stolen property and bringing stolen property into the state, according to police and court records.

Three Hagerstown men have been charged with burglarizing a home Wednesday in Manheim, Pa. Galen Scott Myers, 54, of 113 W. Church St., Wilbur Roy Tosten, 65, of 920 Mt. Aetna Road, and James Bradley Tosten Sr., 42, of 932 Pope Ave., were charged with one count each of burglary, criminal conspiracy to commit burglary, criminal trespass, criminal conspiracy to commit criminal trespass and theft by unlawful taking or disposition, according to a news...